Romantic Renditions: Sensual, Sexy, and Mysteriously Tantalizing Novels : June 2012

My first book is now available on Kindle

The True Basis of Morality

"Let me not the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever fixed mark
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within the bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out ev'n to the edge of doom:--
If this be error, and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor man ever loved."

W. Shakespeare.

How Do I love Thee?

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Favorite Books

Emma by Jane Austin
Harry Potter by JK Rowling
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Prisoner of My Desire by Johanna Lindsay
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin
The Cynster Series By Stephanie Laurens
The Highlander Series by Karen Moning
The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
The Simply Series by Mary Balogh
The Slightly Series by Mary Balogh
The Then came. . .series by Mary Balogh
Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Romantic Renditions: Sensual, Sexy, and Mysteriously Tantalizing Novels

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Her Secret Love